[cobalt-users] Newby Admn questions

["dhbolton" <dhbolton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm, new to Raq4 so I've read the manual many times. I've changed admin
accounts, setup a virtual site but am having trouble updating it via
Frontpage. I've created the virtual site but have been able to upload via
Frontpage Server extensions (yes they are on and I've entered a password-
but the webmaster username/password are rejected). I'm sure its me being
stupid bt I only do this part time so am trying to leap up the learning
curve.

1. Do the DNS records need to be in place to make this work?
2. How can one test a site before doing DNS changes to make it live?
3. Do I need the DNS server enabled now?

Sorry if these are basic, I have RTFM several times!

To give examples, I own dhbolton.com and .co.uk (currently hosted elsewhere
but I can change the name servers) I'd like to host these on a RAQ4 that I'm
admin for at 213.239.46.46

I've added www.dhbolton.com to the site, enabled FP extensions.  Host name
in the Virtual Site List is www.dhbolton.com

The site was setup like this
  IP Address   213.239.46.46
  Host Name www
  Domain Name   dhbolton.com
  Web Server Aliases www.dhbolton.co.uk, dhbolton.com, dhbolton.co.uk
  Email Server Aliases dhbolton.co.uk
Plus php enabled.

The front page password was definitely all lowercase.
I tried publishing to
ftp://213.239.46.46/homes/sites/www.dhbolton.com/web
and got a 550 No such file/directory exists
I then tried
http://213.239.46.46/home/sites/www.dhbolton.com/web
which pulled up an 'Enter Newtork Password' but would not accept either
the Admin / Admin Password or webmaster/front page password

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I logged in as Admin with an FTP client and noticed that the path seems to
be /home/sites/site1/web
with some kind of alias directory entry for www.dhbolton.com which jumps to
/home/sites/site1/

No probs ftping the files stuff into this folder but some of the other sites
I'm hosting will require frontpage access
so I really need to get it working.

I know I'm probably missing something obvious. Anyone care to point out
exactly what? And thanks for reading.

David Bolton